A new year is supposed to begin with hope for what’s to come. It’s a new start. A clean slate.
On January 1, Brendan Valdes didn’t feel well and decided he should go to an emergency room in Orlando. He thought he had, in his words, a “regular ole sickness.”
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Hours later, he was told that he had a nine-centimeter cancerous tumor smack in the middle of his chest.
“I was completely blindsided,” Valdes, 23, said Tuesday from the PGA Tour’s Biltmore Championship, where he is playing on a sponsor’s exemption. “I mean, of course I felt good. It was just I had a lung infection. That’s the only reason I went in.
“We never would’ve found it…
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